The American Bach Society will hold its biennial meeting at Yale University, April 24-26. The conference will explore the topic “J. S. Bach and the Musical Instruments of his Time,” and will be hosted by the Yale department of music, School of Music,...
The dialogue on race in America initiated by President Clinton will open at Yale University on Monday, April 13, when campus representatives and New Haven community leaders gather in Battell Chapel, corner of Elm and College streets, at 8 p.m. to...
An opera written by concentration camp inmate Viktor Ullmann, who died in Auschwitz soon after composing the work, will be performed at Yale University on Friday, April 24, and Saturday, April 25, at 8 p.m. “The Kaiser of Atlantis” (or “Death Abdicates...
The 1998 Peace Games at Yale Festival will take place Saturday, April 4, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. The media are invited to cover this highly visual town/gown event that emphasizes cooperation instead of competition. The festival will bring students from nine...
John Hollander, the Sterling Professor of English at Yale, will be this year’s recipient of the Robert Penn Warren-Cleanth Brooks Award for his 1997 book, “The Work of Poetry” (Columbia University Press). The award will be presented during a ceremony...
The Council on Latin American Studies of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese will host a festival of films from and about Brazil. The films, in Portuguese with English subtitles, will be shown...
The Whitney Humanities Center at Yale, with the assistance of the Woodward Lectures Fund, will host a symposium, “Whose Freud? The Place of Psychoanalysis in Contemporary Culture,” on Friday and Saturday, April 3-4. All conference panels will be held...
The music of Charles Ives, one of this century’s greatest composers, will be celebrated in a three day festival-conference at Yale University, April 3-5. The festival, marking the centenary of Ives’ graduation from Yale College in the spring of 1898,...
U.S. Secretary of Education Richard Riley will visit the Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School in New Haven, 444 Orange St., tomorrow, Thursday, March 19. His visit celebrates the partnerships between New Haven Public Schools and Yale University...
Mary Ellen Miller, an expert on the art of Mesoamerica, has been named the first Vincent J. Scully Professor of the History of Art by vote of the Yale Corporation. The new chair was established in January in honor of Vincent J. Scully Jr., the longtime...